Biography

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang is an economist and (Honorary) Research Fellow at the Center for Effective Global Action, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. He is affiliated with the Represent Research Group and the International Growth Centre of the London School of Economics. He has also been the National Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems Unit Postdoctoral Associate within the Human-Computer Interaction & Social Computing Area at Cornell Tech (2016-17). He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Economics from Ohio University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Ghana.

Kweku does research in behavioral economics, development economics, political economics, econometrics, technological change and human-computer interaction, and has developed and taught two highly-rated courses in poverty, technology and development, as well as ethics and methods in social and data science research at UC Berkeley in 2014 and 2015, tied to his research.